Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2004

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2004

Carol (Devens) Green-Ramirez, 1952-2003.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)
March 22, 2004... Carol (Devens) Green-Ramirez, professor of history at Central Michigan University and editor of the Michigan Historical Review from 1992 through 1997, died recently at her home in Mt. Pleasant. She was fifty-one years old. Dr Green-Ramirez...

Waging cold war in a Model City: the investigation of "subversive" influences in the 1967 Detroit riot.(2003 Student Essay Prize Winner)
March 22, 2004... One year after the Detroit riot of July 1967, an African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, charged that the city's administration had failed to address the root causes of Detroit's civil unrest, which left forty-three people dead,...

Municipal housekeeping: the political activities of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs in the 1920s.
March 22, 2004... The 1931 centennial edition of the Detroit Free Press characterized the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs (DFWC) as a politically astute entity when it stated that it was "difficult to find any civic project relating to the welfare of women,...

The social problems club riot of 1935: a window into antiradicalism and antisemitism at Michigan State College.
March 22, 2004... In April 1935 Michigan State College (MSC--now Michigan State University) made national news. On April 13 the Associated Press reported that during a nationwide student strike for peace the day before, in which thousands of students all over...

Planting the seeds of academic excellence and cultural awareness: the Michigan-Tuskegee exchange program.(Research Note)
March 22, 2004... The years between 1954 and 1965 witnessed a dramatic shift in the racial climate of the United States. Segregation was systematically challenged, requiring citizens of all ages to confront the reality of a changing societal landscape. This push...

The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company collections Northern Michigan University archives.(Archival Report)
March 22, 2004... The iron-ore-mining industry has been the single most formative influence in many areas of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Most of the UP's larger towns, for example, emerged near the more successful iron mines or their ports. Because iron...

Joseph C. Bigott. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Joseph C. Bigott. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $40.00. In From Cottage to...

Gordon L. Olson. A Free Library for Everyone: the History of the Grand Rapids Public Library.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gordon L. Olson. A Free Library for Everyone: The History of the Grand Rapids Public Library. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Grand Rapids Public Library, 2003. Pp. 75. Index. Notes. Photographs. Paper $15.00. A venerable local institution receives...

Laurie A. Gomulka Palazzolo. Horn Man: the Polish-American Musician in Twentieth-Century Detroit.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Laurie A. Gomulka Palazzolo. Horn Man: The Polish-American Musician in Twentieth-Century Detroit. Detroit: American-Polish Music Society, 2003. Pp. 416. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $30.00. Like many books about ethnic history Horn...

Richard L. Pifer. A City at War: Milwaukee Labor during World War II.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Richard L. Pifer. A City at War: Milwaukee Labor during World War II. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2003. Pp. 210. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95. Richard L. Pifer's monograph, A City at War:...

Constance B. Schulz, ed. Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Constance B. Schulz, ed. Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. Pp. 236. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Cloth, $34.95....

Heather Ann Thompson. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Heather Ann Thompson. Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. 245. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95. Heather Thompson's work, Whose...

Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan. Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan. Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001. Pp. 222. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper $29.00. In this...

Gay Pitman Zieger. For the Good of the Children: a History of the Boys and Girls Republic.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gay Pitman Zieger. For the Good of the Children: A History of the Boys and Girls Republic. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 272. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. Gay Zieger's history of the Boys and...

Review essay: Discovering the Peoples of Michigan.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... Until publication of the series Discovering the Peoples of Michigan, readers looking for concise and accurate information about the numerous ethnic groups residing in the state had limited resources. Their options were restricted to lengthy...

Books received.
March 22, 2004... Brisson, Steven C. Wish You Were Here: An Album of Vintage Mackinac Postcards. Lansing: State of Michigan, 2002. Pp. 140. Cloth, $18.95; paper, $12.95. This is a collection of more than two hundred vintage postcards from the Mackinac...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... To the editor: I enjoyed the recent article "Perry Bullard, Liberal Lawmaker, 1972-1992" (MHR, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2003). However, I have a small correction to the historical record, this being a journal of history. The article states...

Editor's page.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... We begin this issue with sad news: Carol (Devens) Green-Ramirez, who served nearly six years as editor of the Michigan Historical Review, died just a few days before Christmas. I owe her an immense debt of gratitude for the skill with which she...